I won’t have to tell many of the professional photographers reading this that turning pro can entirely change the way we feel about image making. Back in the days when we were amateurs we took pictures for our own personal enjoyment, and to improve our knowledge and our creative eye. When we take pictures for […]

I know quite a lot of self-employed people and whilst the world of self-employment can be satisfying in so many ways, we also bear huge responsibilities to our clients, ourselves, and of course to our business. We have to understand what it’s costing us each month (and perhaps each hour) to run our business and […]

A few months ago Olympus asked me to act as judge and mentor on a very exciting project. In brief, the Olympus Protege 2014 competition sought to identify the most promising amateur photographers in four genres – Animal Photography, Fashion Portraiture, Music Photography, and Landscape Photography. Heading up the Animals category is hugely exciting but […]

I think there’s something fascinating and compelling about catwalk photography, particularly the homegrown confines of London Fashion Week 2014, the hub of which is the beautiful and refined setting of Somerset House on The Strand. It was great to see so many familiar faces from the occasions when I’ve shot here over the years – […]

I had an exciting e-mail from Olympus yesterday letting me know that the Olympus Proteges final shortlist has now been announced and the public vote is now live. The competition covers four genres: Landscape (for which the mentor is Mark Cargill), Music photography (led by rock photographer Mick Hutson), Fashion portraiture (with Damian McGillicuddy) and […]

As some of you will know, I am currently tasked with helping to choose the next Olympus protege, in the Animals category. I have a buoyant pet and animal side to the business which you can see here: pet and animal photography West Sussex. This is an area which many photographers either enjoy as a […]

In this instalment of our business series we’ll talk about the importance of viewing sessions, a vital part of a professional photographer’s service. Once a photographer has completed a client’s photo shoot there are many other tasks to deal with. In fact taking the pictures is often just the beginning. A post-shoot workflow might typically […]

I realised recently that I hadn’t written a business post for a while, even though professional photographers discuss business almost on a daily basis. We always have stories to swap and solutions to suggest. In fact I’m seeing more and more of these conversations and I think this is partly down to the way that […]